Early Rise

1 Samuel 17:20
“And David rose up early in the morning…”
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Laurence J. Peter
“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.”
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Author Unknown
"Getting up early is just a question of mind over mattress."
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Gordon B. Hinckley
"If you go to bed at 10:00 and get up by 6:00 A.M., things will work out for you."
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Song of Solomon 7: 12
“Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish.”
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Author Unknown
“Living the easy life in the morning often leads to a hard day from that point on.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.”

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Ezra Taft Benson
“Adequate early rest is best…."Early to bed and early to rise" is still good counsel.”
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Aristotle
“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”
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Joshua 6:12
“And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.”.
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Author Unknown
“Early to bed and early to rise will dramatically increase your chances of being a success in life.”
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J.M. Power
“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”
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Luke 21:38
“And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.”
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Genesis 28:18
“And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put [for] his pillows, and set it up [for] a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.”
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Thomas Edison
“Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.”
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Brigham Young
“Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“In very large measure each of us holds the key to the blessings of the Almighty upon us. If we wish the blessing, we must pay the price.”
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Mark 16:2
“And very early in the morning the first [day] of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.”
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John 8:2
“And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.”
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Dale Carnegie
“If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.”
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Joshua 7:16
“So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken.”
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John 8:1-2
“Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.”
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Genesis 19:27
“And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD.”
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Exodus 24:4
“And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.”
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Russell M. Nelson
“To those who feel defeated and downtrodden, look to the early hours of the day for your rescue…Shadows of yesterday’s grief melt in the rays of early morn’s opportunity.”
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Marion G. Romney
“Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature…I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day."
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Sterling W. Sill
‘To give the journey through life a downhill grade, get up early enough to watch the sun rise. It is exciting to experience the light, warmth, and energy that helps to make the earth beautiful with flowers and vegetation.”
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Ernest L. Wilkinson
“I suggest…that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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Joe J. Christensen
“You can have a similar experience in your own life. You can change, even if you consider yourself a "night person…Almost any habit—good or bad—can be set in about twenty-one days. With firm resolve, we can make the needed changes in our lives.
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Exodus 9:13
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.”
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Exodus 34:4
“And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.”
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Alvin R. Dyer
“What I believe…about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.”
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Ben Franklin
“He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise…”
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Joe J. Christensen
“Some sleep too much….Nowhere do the scriptures say, ‘Thou shalt sleep eight hours.’ Nor do they say, ‘Retire early unless you happen to be a night person.’ There must be an excellent reason for the injunction to retire and arise early. …You will profit by this counsel if you heed it…”
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Stephen R. Covey
“If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.”
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Ernest L. Wilkinson
“One of the great reasons, I am sure, why [David O.] McKay has lived to such a good, ripe, and vigorous old age has been the fact that as a young man he developed habits of retiring to bed early, arising early, generally before sun up, when his mind was clear and his body vigorous, to do the day's work.
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Harold B. Lee
"If you are to be successful…you will need to be inspired. You will need to receive revelation. I will give you one piece of advice: Go to bed early and get up early. If you do, your body and mind will become rested and then in the quiet of those early morning hours, you will receive more flashes of inspiration and insight than at any other time of the day."
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Boyd K. Packer
“I counsel our children to do their critical studying in the early hours of the morning when they're fresh and alert, rather than to fight physical weariness and mental exhaustion at night. I've learned the power of the dictum, "Early to bed, early to rise." When I'm under pressure, you won't find me burning the midnight oil. I'd much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning…”
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Stephen R. Covey
“During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling to keep them on earth. This is somewhat comparable to the pull of the flesh when our alarm goes off early in the morning. Unless we put "mind over mattress" and carry out the resolves made the night before, we will experience our first defeat that day. Not sufficient to finish. Mission aborted.”
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Joe J. Christensen
“Some sleep too much…there must be an excellent reason for the injunction to retire and arise early. …You will profit by this counsel if you heed it…The world is a more beautiful place early in the morning. Life is so much more calm. Much more can be accomplished in a shorter amount of time… Some are habituated to going to bed late and sleeping much longer than your system really needs and thus missing out on some of the personal inspiration you could be receiving.”
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Journal of American College Health
"Students who habitually go to bed late and sleep late the next day have lower grade point averages (GPAs) than students with early-to-bed and early-to-rise sleeping habits. The later students slept in the morning, the lower their grades tended to be. Out of all the factors studied, weekday and weekend wakeup times had the strongest association with students' GPAs. Each hour over the average that students slept in on weekdays was associated with a 0.13-point drop on the GPA (0.0-4.0 scale)."
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Mark 1:32-35
“And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils. And all the city was gathered together at the door. And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him. And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
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